Andrew Wilson v. City of Chicago, Cross-Claim and Jon Burge, Cross-Claim

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• holding that a similar argument “would not affect the district court’s jurisdiction over [the plaintiff’s indemnification] claim … ; it would just show that the claim lacked merit”
• recognizing that 745 ILCS 10/9-102 covers § 1983 damages imposed on individual public employees
• explaining that a police officer acts outside the scope of his employment when he “commits a wrong designed to advance his purely private interests”
• stating that whether a police officer acted within the scope of his employment and whether he acted under color of state law are “closely related, although not identical” issues
• noting that the question whether a police officer acted within the scope of his employment and the question whether he acted under color of state law are “closely related, although not identical”
• rejecting the position that a claim for indemnification is premature until a judgment is entered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).